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Physical attributes of pedestrian space that facilitate the perception of safety: with special reference to kandy grid city

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dc.contributor.author Ranasinghe, A
dc.contributor.author Wijesundara, J
dc.contributor.editor Wijesundara, J
dc.contributor.editor Dayaratne, R
dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-07T07:47:42Z
dc.date.available 2024-11-07T07:47:42Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation Ranasinghe, A, S.M.W., & Wijesundara, J., (2016). Physical attributes of pedestrian space that facilitate the perception of safety: with special reference to kandy grid city. In J. Wijesundara, & R. Dayaratne,(Eds.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP 2016. (pp. 81-92). Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa.
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/22924
dc.description.abstract This paper explores a link between pedestrian space based safety facilitating strategies formulated for urban settlements. Pedestrian spaces which can be simply address as streets and alleys are major elements of a city. City image and the level of city functionality depend on frequency of these pedestrian spaces. Perception of ‘safety’, which is the physical and psychological feel of protection, is a key factor that attracts human being into spaces to behave among them. Positive physical attributes of the pedestrian spaces are extremely effective in ensuring the safety within them. Most architectural and urban design theorists discuss the independent physical attributes that facilitate the safety but usually there is combination of a set of attributes contributing towards the term. The research systematically reviews these attributes to formulate the legitimate combinations to facilitate the safety. The study was launched in Kandy grid city that contains several streets and alleys network. Kandy city is an ancient city with a significant culture, tradition and ethnic. Study results the least combinations of set of attributes to facilitate the perception of safety as representing all four key attributes extracted from literature search strategy which are built-form, planning and layout, ambience and functions. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Department of Architecture University of Moratuwa en_US
dc.subject perception of safety en_US
dc.subject pedestrian space en_US
dc.subject physical attributes en_US
dc.subject Kandy en_US
dc.subject sidewalks and streets en_US
dc.title Physical attributes of pedestrian space that facilitate the perception of safety: with special reference to kandy grid city en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.year 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.conference Fourth International Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 81-92 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.email akilaband@yahoo.com en_US


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